Part 2 Animal Adaptations Camouflage and Mimicry

This unit includes 8 Lessons (50 minutes each) and 15 pages of printable work bundles. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A quiz game concludes each part for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

Note: I've also included my biodiversity and relative abundance lesson in this post so that you can use the entire review game at the end of this lesson as great wrap up / review. Please feel free to delete those slides if not interested.

This is one my favorite set of slideshows and it always amazes the students. There are so many great examples of camouflage and mimicry that this PowerPoint will have your students saying "That's so cool" the entire lesson. The built-in challenge activities are just one way that this PowerPoint is highly interactive.

Brief Descriptions

These slideshows include critical notes, exciting visuals, great review games, challenge questions, and a neat activity that requires students to camouflage a gecko template and then hide it in the school. I work in a K-8 school and we have the elementary students participate in a "Great Gecko Hunt". Also included is a 1-20 find the camouflaged animal somewhere in the slide. This quiz challenge is a great hook for the rest of the lesson. Students then explore the different kinds of mimicry and see many great examples. Mimicry: The resemblance of an animal species to another species or to natural objects. students learn about Batesian mimicry: Looking like another species that is dangerous or may taste bad. A really neat activity has students pretend to be birds and eat different flavored Cheerios (some good some gross). There is a mimic, and the model. Students then participate in a beat the butterfly man challenge that has student try to guess the non toxic butterfly from a series of slides. Old cd's become their tokens and represent yes / no answers. Students try to beat The Butterfly Man. This sounds crazy but it is easy to follow and the students love it. Student then learn about Mullerian mimicry: Several unrelated species share warning colors that warn predators that these colors are dangerous or toxic. Students record boxes and use colors to demonstrate patterns and colors they see form a series of slides that show animals displaying warning colors. A great activity explores taste called nastieeos where the teacher makes tastieeos that are delicious, and nastieeos that are gross tasting. The recipe is hinted at in the slideshow. The tastieeos use cinnamon, sugar, chocolate. The nastieeos use garlic salt worchestire sauce, lemon juice, pepper. The students become birds and learn real quick that going after tastieeos isn't worth it because if you get a nastieeos you will regret it. Using "Jelly Belly" BeanBoozled gross jelly beans also works well. You can't tell the difference between a flavor like licorice and skunk spray taste. It only takes one bad experience and the reward isn't worth the risk (kind of like nature) This is a really interactive and exciting PowerPoint that your students will enjoy.

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